elastic collisions

elastic collisions
Exhibition, 16.03. to 29.04. 2017

Wednesday, 15.03. 2017, 7 pm
Exhibition opening with performances by Peter Fritzenwallner, Thomas Hörl, Barbis Ruder, Sebastiano Sing, Sööt/Zeyringer and Julischka Stengele

Artistic exchange between Berlin and Vienna has always yielded new constellations and synergies but also resistance and rivalries. elastic collisions takes it up a notch: 
A selection of 15 works from the exhibition Arcadia Unbound – a part of the 2015 Berlin Art Week in the former GDR radio station – will be placed in a new frame of reference in the Kunsthalle Exnergasse. The select works from Berlin, all from the realm of sculpture in the broadest sense, form the basis for performative interventions by eight Viennese artists. They explore various stagings of space, body, and action processes through their very different approaches to performance.
Through reciprocities between specific media, an open space is created in the exhibition space, which facilitates confrontation and connection at the same time.

Curators: Janine Eggert, Sibylle Jazra, Marte Kiessling, and Christopher Sage
Performance programme curator: Peter Kozek

Artists: Stefan Alber, Alexandra Baumgartner, Ulu Braun, Janine Eggert und Philipp Ricklefs, Peter Fritzenwallner, Ingo Gerken, Stef Heidhues, Thomas Hörl, John Isaacs , Sibylle Jazra, Marte Kiessling, Bjørn Melhus, Thomas und Renée Rapedius, Alona Rodeh, Christoph Rothmeier, Barbis Ruder, Christopher Sage, Sebastiano Sing, Sööt/Zeyringer, Julischka Stengele, Tommy Støckel


DATES

15.03. 2017, 7pm
Exhibition opening with performances by Peter Fritzenwallner, Thomas Hörl, Barbis Ruder, Sebastiano Sing, Sööt/Zeyringer and Julischka Stengele. 
The opening of the exhibition presents selected works by Berlin based artists, in dialogue with performances by the Viennese artists, taking place from 7pm and continuing during the course of the evening. 

18.03.2017, 2 pm
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Artist Talk with Berlin and Viennese artists discussing the works in the space and working with the space. With Bettina Kogler, artistic director of WUK performing arts and curator of performance at the donaufestival 2017 and Carola Dertnig, performance artist and director of the department of performing arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. 

29.04. 2017, 12 noon
Guided tour with the curators 
Peter Kozek and Marte Kiessling guide visitors through the exhibition.